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‘Some of it, I cringe when I watch. I’m like, “Oh my God, I can’t believe I said that!” ’ —EDDIE M U R P H Y, on his ’80s comedy, on CBS Sunday Morning

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‘Trying to be responsible & use Uber & our driver asked to use our bathroom’ —GABRIELLE UNION, on her New Year’s Eve rideshare experience, on Twitter

‘I always FaceTime Jonathan Van Ness for tips’ —ALY RAISMAN, on asking the Queer Eye star for skin-care advice, to People

‘Is this what the kids call a “glow-up”?’

—RYAN SEACREST, on how his appearance changed since 2003, on Instagram

‘He’s an anchor who holds me down, and he’s very real. He’s not the No. 1 fan of Katy Perry, but he’s the No. 1 fan of Katheryn Hudson’ —KATY P E R RY, on her relationship with fiancé Orlando Bloom, to Vogue India

‘It was Pacey from Dawson’s Creek! I was a very young teenager’ —JODIE TURNER-SMITH, on having her first crush on her husband Joshua Jackson’s TV character, to W Magazine

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Knives Out will get a sequel Det. Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) might’ve solved the case of Harlan Thrombey’s (Christopher Plummer) death, but he’ll have another whodunit on his hands when the murder mystery gets a follow-up, which director Rian Johnson said he’s already working on.

Sharon Stone got kicked off a dating app Bumble dropped her account because the service suspected it was a fake. But after Stone tweeted, “Don’t shut me out of the hive,” her profile was reactivated.

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“I have been struggling with hair loss for most of my adult life,” the TV personality revealed. So she started the new decade by putting years of wigs, steroids and supplements in the past and buzzing her head.

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American Girl debuts a doll with a difference Meet Joss! The company’s 2020 Girl of the Year is a surfer who tries out for the cheer squad. She also has hearing loss and comes with a removable hearing aid.

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Jonathan and Drew Scott open up about the big changes in their lives and why they can’t wait for what’s next.

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Matt Lauer moves on with a new woman, plus more celebrity news

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Kathy Griffin, Ali Krieger and more stars tied the knot in style

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A Real-Life Wonder

Magda Newman and her teen son Nathaniel, whose life uncannily mirrored the bestselling novel Wonder, shared their amazing story

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Check out the hottest stars who graced this year’s red carpet.

Jennifer Garner

Catching up with the actress about her food line and what’s next

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Telling a Hero’s Tale Inside the true story of Just Mercy, Michael B. Jordan’s new film about criminal-justice activist Bryan Stevenson

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Dozens of women’s bodies have been found in a desolate patch of land in Texas. Now DNA has uncovered the identities of the last two victims

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‘I wanted to bring my mom, but I couldn’t, because anyone I stand next to they say I’m dating’ —BRAD PITT

Brad Pitt got a standing ovation at L.A.’s Beverly Hilton on Jan. 5 after he won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Once upon a Time . . . in Hollywood.

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Charlize Theron presented Tom Hanks with the Cecil B. DeMille Award, saying, “He just makes the world a better place.”

‘It’s the greatest and most exciting and challenging job there is’ —TOM HANKS ON ACTING

THROWBACK!

Nominee Leonardo DiCaprio attended his first Golden Globe Awards in 1994 at age 19 for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, with his mom, Irmelin, as his date.

“It feels incredible,” said Awkwafina, who is the first AsianAmerican to win a Globe for Best Film Actress (for her role in The Farewell ).

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Fashion Favorites T H E S E S TA R S K I C K E D OFF THE FIRST BIG AWARDS SHOW OF THE DECADE IN STYLE

Renée Zellweger

The slit on the Judy winner’s powder blue custom Armani Privé column may have revealed lots of leg on one side, but it also strategically hid a swollen ankle on the other. “It’s nicely placed behind the dress,” she said of the injury, which didn’t stop her from wearing Jimmy Choo pumps.

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Ana de Armas

The Knives Out nominee made her Golden Globes debut a memorable one in a navy custom Ralph & Russo sequined ball gown, plus more than 149 carats of Tiffany & Co. diamond, sapphire and tanzanite jewels. “It’s a pretty special moment,” she said.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas The presenter’s pink Cristina Ottaviano gown had a built-in corset that “accentuated her beautiful silhouette,” says stylist Mimi Cuttrell. A diamond Bulgari necklace (valued at more than $1 million) added to the wow factor.

Reese Witherspoon

The Morning Show nominee and Big Little Lies star went for a “sleek look” with this Roland Mouret gown, says her stylist Petra Flannery, who described the sculptural neckline as “leaf-inspired.” The finishing touches: Tiffany & Co. jewelry and a slicked-back hairstyle.

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Olivia Colman in Emilia Wickstead.

Dakota Fanning in Dior Haute Couture.

Jodie Comer in Mary Katrantzou.

Scarlett Johansson

From the dramatic plunging sweetheart neckline and sweeping bow-adorned train of her custom Vera Wang Collection dress to the more than 120 carats of glittering Bulgari diamonds on her neck, ears and wrist, the Marriage Story nominee’s look was pure Hollywood glamour.

Kerry Washington

The presenter took a risk in an Altuzarra blazer and skirt with hand-embroidered crystal rope detailing. “She’s a badass woman who’s not afraid of anything,” says stylist Law Roach, who relied on “good old double-stick tape” to keep everything in place.

Zoey Deutch

The Politician star’s vibrant yellow Fendi Couture ensemble may have looked like a gown, but it was actually a voluminous jumpsuit with wide-leg bottoms.

She styled it with a Harry Winston sapphire-and-diamond necklace, rings and earrings that totaled more than 110 carats.

Beyoncé in Schiaparelli Haute Couture.

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Pose nominee Billy Porter said this Tiffany & Co. dragonfly brooch, which he paired with a pendant and rings also by the jeweler, symbolizes “transformation and selfrealization.”

G O LDE N Gwyneth Paltrow, a presenter and star of The Politician, piled on diamond Bulgari earrings and not one but two diamond necklaces layered under her Fendi tulle dress. All in: more than 84 carats.

A nominee (for Hustlers) and a presenter, Jennifer Lopez stunned in a one-ofa-kind Harry Winston emerald-anddiamond necklace and matching earrings (combined: more than 84 carats).

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More than 180 carats of champagne diamonds rounded out presenter Sofia Vergara’s massive Lorraine Schwartz hoops.

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Harriet nominee Cynthia Erivo shined in a Bulgari sapphireand-diamond necklace (valued at more than $3 million) and a matching ring.

Helen Mirren, a nominee for Catherine the Great, chose ruby drop earrings and a 73.55-carat cascading diamond necklace (both by Harry Winston).

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Best Actor winner Joaquin Phoenix gave fiancée Rooney Mara a sweet shout-out during his acceptance speech: “Love you,” he said.

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Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas presented together at their first Globes ceremony as a married couple.

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Taylor Swift, a nominee for Best Song, and her boyfriend of three years Joe Alwyn sat together for their first official Globes appearance as a couple.

Nominee Bill Hader and Rachel Bilson made the Globes a date night—and their public debut as a duo.

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Thank you for inviting me back to the family reunion’ —RENEE ZELLWEGER

THROWBACKS!

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A Best Actress winner for Judy, Renée Zellweger (top) won her first Globe in 2001 for Nurse Betty. Hustlers nominee Jennifer Lopez made her Globes debut in 1998 after a nod for Selena.

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Eddie Murphy and fiancée Paige Butcher (left) chatted with another engaged pair: Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson.

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Ellen DeGeneres shared laughs with wife Portia de Rossi and Sacha Baron Cohen (left), while Jennifer Aniston, who was nominated for her role in Apple TV+’s The Morning Show, caught up with legendary comic Carol Burnett (right).

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‘I ALREADY GOT A LITTLE BIT BOOZY BECAUSE I THOUGHT THIS WASN’T GOING TO HAPPEN’ —OLIVIA COLMAN ON HER WIN FOR THE CROWN

‘I’M HAPPY FOR THE TIMES THAT WERE THE HARDEST TIMES OF MY LIFE BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THAT’S WHAT MAKES YOU’ —ELLEN DEGENERES

‘I HAVE TO THANK MY BROTHER IN CRIME, LDC [LEONARDO DICAPRIO] . . . BUT STILL, I WOULD’VE SHARED THE RAFT’ —BRAD PITT, JOKING ABOUT THE ENDING OF TITANIC

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Tiffany Haddish danced to ’90s hip-hop classics spun by pal Snoop Dogg at Amazon’s bash.

After giving a moving tribute to Ellen DeGeneres at the show, Kate McKinnon partied with her sister Emily Lynne at NBC’s celebration.

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Taylor Swift caught up with Margaret Qualley and Andrew Scott at CAA’s celebration, while Big Little Lies’ Reese Witherspoon and Zoë Kravitz reunited at the same fete.

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Succession’s Brian Cox (who won Best Actor), Kieran Culkin, Jesse Armstrong, Alan Ruck and Sarah Snook celebrated their Best TV Drama Series win at HBO’s afterparty.

Yara Shahidi and Cynthia Erivo—who was nominated for two awards for Harriet— were all laughs at the Walt Disney Company’s party.

Jennifer Aniston kept close to surprise presenter Sandra Bullock at the Netflix bash, sponsored

by Casamigos.

“I have the Viking spirit,” said Patricia Arquette—with Salma Hayek at In Style and Warner Bros.’ party—about snagging her hat from the event’s photo booth.

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After winning Best Actor for Rocketman, Taron Egerton celebrated with his sisters Mary and Rosie at the HFPA’s official party, sponsored by Lindt.

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Queen Elizabeth ushered in the new decade Jan. 3 by releasing a historic portrait with her three male heirs: Prince Charles, 71, Prince William, 37, and Prince George, 6.

The royals posed for the family photo Dec. 18 ahead of the Queen’s annual Christmas luncheon at Buckingham Palace.

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Will Ferrell and his 13-year-old son Mattias shared a laugh at the Los Angeles Lakers game.

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Houston native Simone Biles led the Texans onto the field before their game against the Tennessee Titans.

WINTRY STROLL Toronto, Jan. 1

Camila Cabello and boyfriend Shawn Mendes picked up some groceries in his hometown.

TEA TIME

Anaheim, Jan. 3 Jimmy Fallon, wife Nancy Juvonen and their daughters Winnie, 6, and Frances, 5, kicked off 2020 with a trip to Disneyland.

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SUN, SAND & STARS

Sexiest Man Alive John Legend soaked up the sun with daughter Luna, 3, and son Miles, 19 months, in a Dec. 29 Instagram post.

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In a Dec. 29 Instagram shot, Brooke Shields— rocking a strapless bikini— revealed she’d visited “another blue lagoon” over the holidays, referring to her 1980 film The Blue Lagoon.

Barack Obama kicked off the New Year by going for a paddleboard ride in the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 2 in Honolulu.

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On Jan. 3 pop star Dua Lipa and model boyfriend Anwar Hadid made waves in Miami.

Mark Wahlberg gave a wave while walking the beach in Barbados on Jan. 2.

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And Baby Makes Three

“It’s like they both can’t believe they are finally parents,” says a Madden source of the couple (in L.A. in 2016).

cian husband, Benji Madden, are beginning the New Year with a new gig—as mom and dad! The couple made the surprise announcement on Jan. 3 that their daughter Raddix had been born. “While we are overjoyed to share the news, we also feel a strong instinct to protect our little one’s privacy,” they said in a joint statement on Instagram, revealing only that their newborn “is really really cute.” According to reports, Raddix was born in Los Angeles County on Dec. 30, and Diaz, 47, and Madden, 40, are “thrilled beyond words to finally be parents,” says a film source. “They have wanted this for a long time.”

Before meeting Madden, Diaz, beloved for her roles in 1998’s There’s Something About Mary and 2000’s Charlie’s Angels, was vocal about not having children yet. “I like protecting people, but I was never drawn to being a mother,” she admitted to Esquire in 2014.

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THEIR LOVE STORY

H a n g Ti m e

The duo (in 2004) socialized together years before they began dating.

Beach Babes

Diaz (with Madden in Florida in July 2014) “is so much more settled and happy,” says a source.

make things easier for me.” But meeting Madden changed her tune. She was first linked to the Good Charlotte rocker in May 2014, and they got engaged shortly before Christmas that year. “It took some maturing, growth, introspection and learning to find the right kind of guy before Cameron took any kind of steady relationship seriously,” says the film source. “Not only in the dating department but even more importantly in bringing a child into her daily life.”

The two were married the following January and have since been “focused on having a family,” says a Madden

All Smiles

“He’s a very giving person,” says a source of Madden (with Diaz in L.A. in January 2015).

source, which included “getting healthy, lowering stress levels and doing everything to be positive.” While the two have kept their relationship very private, they were “ecstatic” to share their happy news after spending the holidays in L.A. awaiting Raddix’s birth. “Their close friends are extremely loyal, so it’s not strange that

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they were able to keep it quiet,” says the source. For now, “it’s very emotional for them,” adds the source, noting that Diaz is planning on being a full-time mom without the help of a nanny anytime soon. “Cameron wants to spend every second with the baby.”

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director Thomas Kail.

People exclusively confirmed on Dec. 30 the pair are engaged and expecting after they were photographed in London.

A source says Williams’s 14-year-old daughter Matilda (with her late ex Heath Ledger) played matchmaker for the actress, 39, and the Tony winner, 42, who directed her in Fosse/ Verdon. This will be the

second marriage for Williams, who split from indie musician Phil Elverum in early 2019 less than a year after tying the knot. “It just didn’t work out,” says an insider. “They are different and lead different lives.”

(Kail was previously in a relationship with theater actress Angela Christian.)

Now pregnant and ready to wed, Williams is in a positive place. Adds the insider: “Michelle fell in love. She is happy and fulfilled and ready for another child.”

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Engaged—and Expecting!

Williams shopped with Kail in London (top) and dressed her bump in Louis Vuitton at the Globes.

—with reporting by Pernilla Cedenheim and Linda Marx

With a cool nickname (“some would even say RAD,” Diaz posted), Raddix is right on trend. “A lot of people are inventing names,” says Pamela Redmond, CEO of the guide Nameberry. “The X ending is a big thing, the gender-neutral name is a big thing.” For celebs, “it’s extra pressure to pick a baby name that’s special.”

Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams had lots of reasons to celebrate at the Jan. 5 Golden Globe Awards. Not only did she win Best Actress in a MiniSeries for Fosse/Verdon, but she also made her red carpet debut with her new love, Hamilton

Constant Companions

“She was ready, and so was he,” a source says of the couple’s (in 2018) becoming parents.

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HEART MONITOR

Wilmer Va l d e r r a m a & Amanda Pacheco

Pe t e r Fa c i n e l l i & L i l y A n n e H a r r i s o n The Nurse Jackie alum, 46, popped the question to his actor-writer girlfriend, 30, during a holiday getaway in Mexico. “Both are beyond elated and are very much looking forward to all that the New Year will bring,” says a rep for Facinelli.

The NCIS star, 39, kicked off New Year’s Day by proposing to model Pacheco with a pear-cut diamond ring (inset) in San Diego. “It’s just us now,” the couple— who have been linked since last April—captioned in matching Instagram announcements.

On Dec. 31 the Orange Is the New Black actress, 30, revealed she said yes to investment salesman Gelin, her longtime boyfriend. “I get to marry my best friend,” posted Brooks, who welcomed a daughter with Gelin in November.

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Nikki Bella & Artem Chigvintsev Surprise! The Total Bellas star, 36, and the 37-year-old Dancing with the Stars pro—who met on the show in 2017—got engaged in France in November. “We have been trying to keep it a secret but really wanted to share our excitement for the New Year!” Bella posted on Jan. 3.

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Danielle Brooks & Dennis Gelin

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events for luxury brands Just more than four months internationally as well as in since Matt Lauer finalized his Palm Beach and around divorce from Annette Roque, New York—including the his wife of 20 years, the Hamptons, where Lauer has controversial former Today long had a home. anchor, 62, has a new love It’s a rare sighting of Lauer, interest. Lauer was spotted who has mostly kept a low over the holidays ‘HE’S profile since his vacationing in New ENJOYING November 2017 firing Zealand with HIMSELF’ for alleged sexual businesswoman —A LAUER misconduct.

Shamin Abas, 50.

SOURCE According to another “He’s enjoying source, “he’s been himself,” a source says of ostracized from most of his Lauer’s new relationship. former social circle.” Lauer The couple were photo­ shares three teenage graphed on Dec. 26 bundled children with his ex­wife. “He’s up and riding bikes. While the angry about what he sees as pair have been friends for the media’s unfair treatment years, this is the first of him and hasn’t been taking time they’ve been spotted things well,” a source told out publicly together. Abas People last fall. “He had done works in marketing and

Private Escape Lauer and Welsh businesswoman Shamin Abas touched down at Wanaka Airport in Queenstown, New Zealand, on Dec. 21.

a lot of work to repair his relationships with his kids, and they’ve been sticking by him. He went from being the biggest deal and being

able to do whatever he wanted to being an outcast— and it’s been a bitter pill to swallow.” — E M I L Y STROHM

Stacy London Finds Love

Stacy London wrapped up 2019 with a major reveal: The former What Not to Wear host, 50, confirmed she’s dating musician Cat Yezbak, 40. “I used to date

wrote on Instagram Dec. 31 of Yezbak, with whom she founded the vintage collectibles company Small

Going Public

London posted several photos of Yezbak (inset) in 2019 when she opened up about their romance on New Year’s Eve.

Beautiful Things. London revealed they’ve been together for more than a year—but kept their romance quiet because “I felt I owed us the chance to be private since this is my first serious relationship with a woman. . . .

I would never hide her out of shame.”

London also thanked the LGBTQ+ community “that fought like hell for me to be able to” publicly date a woman “with very few repercussions.” The fashion guru, who cohosted the hit TLC makeover show from 2003 to 2013, has never married or had kids.

She wrote in her 2012 memoir about clinging to the single life because she found it “safe.”

Still, London hoped to “marry or at least wind up with a lifetime partner,” she wrote. Now she’s found a real connection. “I fell in love, truly in love, with this beautiful, sexy, kind soul,” London posted, “and I won’t apologize for that.” — D A N A R O S E F A L C O N E

‘I FELL IN LOVE, TRULY IN LOVE, WITH THIS BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, KIND SOUL, AND I WON’T APOLOGIZE FOR THAT’ —ON GIRLFRIEND CAT YEZBAK

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Back to Nature

Archie’s Canadian Vacation

Meghan and Harry (above, in New Zealand in 2018) outfitted Archie (in a newly released photo) with items from their Down Under trip.

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For their first Christmas and New Year as a family of three, Meghan and Prince Harry rang in the season with their 8-month-old son Archie very privately— more than 4,700 miles from London on Vancouver Island, Canada. over Thanksgiving by Meghan—of a formed in musicals with ‘SHE WAS SUPERThey enjoyed “sharing the beaming Harry holding Archie beside a Meghan when they were teens.

FRIENDLY warmth of the Canadian serene lake. (Archie wore a pom-pom hat Meghan’s mother, Doria AND DOWNpeople and the beauty of the

by Make Give Live, a charitable knitting Ragland, who lives in L.A., and TO-EARTH’ landscape with their young collective in New Zealand whose invena few close friends, including —HIKER ASYMINA KANTOROWICZ ON son,” the palace said. The tory soon sold out after the photo’s Meghan’s former Suits costar MEETING MEGHAN Abigail Spencer and actress family received a friendly release.) It wasn’t the only time Meghan welcome from Prime Minister got behind the camera: On New Year’s Janina Gavankar, visited Justin Trudeau, who tweeted, “We’re all Day she joined Harry and pal Spencer for during the Sussexes’ weeks-long stay. wishing you a quiet and blessed stay in a hike at Horth Hill Regional Park, where Surrounded by the spectacular scenery Canada. You’re among friends, and the royal mom helped a couple struggling of British Columbia, the couple spent always welcome here.” to take a selfie. “She was super-friendly ample time outdoors, sharing a glimpse It was a needed respite for the couple, and down-to-earth,” says Asymina Kaninto their getaway with a photo—taken who are embroiled in several lawsuits torowicz, 29, who was attempting to use a with the U.K. press and acknowledged selfie stick with her boyfriend Iliya PavMeghan feeling under strain earlier this fall amid lovic, 29, when Meghan approached.

To o k T h i s tabloid scrutiny and ongoing family ten“She was just enjoying her New Year’s hike Photo! sions. While the rest of the royal family with her husband and friend. She and celebrated with the Queen at her SanHarry seemed really happy—like a happy dringham home back in the U.K., newly married couple.” Now they’re Meghan, 38, and Harry, 35, maintained a heading back for a London S u r p r i s e low-key presence on Vancouver Island appearance—with a CanaSelfie after music producer David Foster dian twist. On Jan. 5 Meghan “I couldn’t arranged for the couple to stay at a and Harry announced plans believe who mansion owned by a close friend. Foster, to visit Canada House in it was,” who grew up in nearby Victoria, has a London to thank their host Kantorowicz (with Pavlovic) connection to the couple through his country for its “support.” says of the royal wife, singer Katharine McPhee, who per—ERIN HILL

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Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Ex Nick Gordon

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Another Sad Overdose On New Year’s Day Nick Gordon—the ex-boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown, the late daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown—was found unresponsive from a heroin overdose in an Orlando hotel room. Gordon’s brother Jack Walker Jr. confirmed Gordon had died in a statement: “We are devastated by the loss of my beautiful brother . . .

Nick’s battle in life was not an easy one.”

His death, at age 30, is the latest in a long saga of addiction and tragedy surrounding the Houston family.

In 2015 Gordon found Bobbi Kristina unconscious in a bathtub with drugs in her system—a scene eerily similar to her mother’s 2012 death, when she was found dead in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton. Bobbi Kristina died at 22 after months in a coma. Her family sued Gordon for wrongful death,

A Haunting Past

accusing him of battering her and giving her drugs. He was ordered to pay $36 million.

Still, Gordon’s brother told People, “not a day went by that he didn’t get emotional about” Bobbi Kristina. “He would always say to me, ‘I wish things had been different.

She shouldn’t have gone the way she did.’ ”

Gordon was raised by Houston (inset) like a son before his relationship with Bobbi Kristina (right, in 2012) turned romantic.

—BRIANNE TRACY with Elissa Rosen

Celebrity Bachelor Fans!

These stars are here for the right reasons: all the drama

Charlize Theron

Jennifer Lawrence

A n n a Ke n d r i c k

S e a n Pe n n

The Bombshell star posed with a poster of new Bachelor Peter Weber, saying later, “I hope he finds the woman of his dreams, but do not let me down: I need some drama.”

The actress told host Chris Harrison in 2013 how much she loves the show.

Recalled Harrison: “I’m like, ‘You like The Bachelor?’

She was like, ‘Duh, I’m a girl.’ ”

The actress got hooked while filming Pitch Perfect 2.

“Some of the girls got me into The Bachelor,” she said, adding that they have a group text about the show.

“I wanna see somebody cry and then see somebody get ecstatic and then see them cry,” the actor said in 2015 of why he watches The Bachelor.

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A kitten finds a home with a man biking around the world BOSNIA

When Dean Nicholson left his home in Dunbar, Scotland, in September 2018 to bike around the world, he planned to make it a solo trip. That changed in December 2018, when he was riding through Bosnia and heard a small meow—and turned to see a tiny kitten following him. Nicholson, 31, named her Nala, and before long the two were inseparable, sharing their travels with their 735,000 Instagram followers. “Who knows where we’d both be just now if our paths hadn’t crossed?”

Nicholson wrote on their one-year anniversary, “but I’m unbelievably grateful they did.”

Nala (in her basket in Istanbul, left) has also been to Azerbaijan, Greece and many other locales with Nicholson

Donnie Wahlberg leaves a $2,020 tip for one lucky server

Wahlberg (inset) left Provencher a written note.

“I’ve loved Donnie my whole life,” she says.

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Actor-singer Donnie Wahlberg made the New Year an especially happy one for IHOP server Bethany Provencher, 37, when he left her a $2,020 tip on a $78.45 bill on Jan 1. “I just started crying,” says Provencher, who had waited on the star’s party, which included Wahlberg’s wife, Jenny McCarthy, her son Evan, 17, and a few friends. The single mom, a waitress for 25 years, started working at the IHOP two months ago and had recently moved into a new apartment with her young son. “Now I can buy furniture and put some money in the bank and make sure my son is good,” says Provencher.

“It’s the greatest thing to ever happen in my life.”

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passages Fichera, 33, welcomed their second child, son Oliver.

The couple also share son Calvin, 3. Rapper Ray J, 38, and his wife, Princess Love, 35, welcomed their second child, son Epik.

They’re also parents to daughter Melody, 19 months. Former Twilight star Jackson Rathbone, 35, and his wife, Sheila Hafsadi, 32, welcomed their third child, a son. He joins big sister Presley, 3, and brother Monroe, 7.

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Topher Grace, 41, and his wife, actress Ashley Hinshaw, 31, are expecting

their second child. They have a 2-year-old daughter, Mabel. Grey’s Anatomy star Caterina Scorsone, 38, and her husband, Rob Giles, 44, welcomed their third child, daughter Arwen. She joins big sisters Paloma, 3, and Eliza, 7.

Today’s Dylan Dreyer, 38, and her husband, Brian

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Ozark actress Julia Garner, 25, and Foster the People frontman Mark Foster, 35, married two days after Christmas. People confirmed the couple’s engagement in May 2019.

The Bachelor alum Caila Quinn, 29, and her boyfriend Nick Burrello, 27, announced their engagement on Instagram after two years of dating.

Deaths Orange Is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan’s 20-yearold son Charlie Noxon died in a skiing accident in Utah on New Year’s Eve. “He was my best work,” Kohan posted on Instagram.

Actress Sue Lyons, who was 14 when she played the title character of Lolita, died at age 73.

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Rep. John Lewis, 79, a prominent civil rights leader and longtime

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Rep. John Lewis

Marcus Scribner The black-ish star, 20, advocates for foster youth who have outgrown their foster homes

Scribner (right) in Washington, D.C., with Rep. Al Lawson and a Congressional Foster Youth Shadow Day participant in 2019.

Happy B ir th d a y !

Betty White, 98 Jan. 17, 1922 Dolly Parton, 74 Jan. 19, 1946 Michelle Obama , 56 Jan. 17, 1964

Georgia congressman, was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

“It is a challenge and a fight. But I have had challenges before and been fighting all my life,” Lewis told The Atlanta JournalConstitution.

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Why I Care PERSONAL

My congresswoman Karen Bass told me STORIES ABOUT about the National Foster Youth Institute and a GIVING BACK foster-youth crisis across the country: Kids are kicked out of their foster homes at age 18, which is crazy to me as a 20-year-old. I spoke with foster youths who told me their stories and how much a family environment means to them. It was eye-opening to hear about their experiences—going through the system, being passed from home to home, growing up being abused. I really don’t think I could navigate the world without the guidance of a parent. NFYI links foster youths up with others who have gone through the same situation and aims to empower them to speak to their congresspeople. We can all support initiatives like subsidized housing and college programs. As human beings we are all connected, and you just want to help in any way you can. I haven’t been through any of the experiences that these warriors have gone through, but I know we can uplift their voices. —R e p o r t e d b y K A R E N M I Z O G U C H I For more information, go to nfyi.org January 20, 2020

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TV | Schitt’s Creek

POP TV

A high-water mark for Catherine O’Hara COMEDY In her long career Catherine O’Hara has played nice, normal women, as we’re reminded every Christmas

by Home Alone repeats. But she has a particular genius for playing not-very-talented, not-very-sane actresses.

These roles stretch all the way back to her SCTV character Lola Heatherton, a musical-variety star who in her most delirious moments would scream, “I love you! I want to bear your children!” But Schitt’s Creek, the Pop TV hit about a wealthy family stripped of their money and forced to relocate to a small town, has afforded O’Hara her most sustained crazy-actress vehicle: She’s Moira Rose, a faded star whose credits include a soap opera called Sunrise Bay and a yet-to-be-released horror film, The Crows

Have Eyes III: The Crowening. Moira totters around in awful wigs—she gives them names—and speaks in a halting, singsong voice that stretches words into babytalk nonsense. (“Friends” becomes “freh-ahnds.”) At the start of the show’s sixth and final season, Moira has suffered a breakdown and secluded herself in a closet.

Forced out into the open by smoke from an electrical fire, she delivers the astoundingly strange line: “How mercurial is life. We all imagine being carried from the ashes by the goddess Artemus, and here I get a balatron from Barnum & Bailey.” No one in this silly, endearing show tries to compete with O’Hara, although Dan Levy, as Moira’s histrionic son, is also a delight. (Pop TV, Tuesdays, 9 p.m.)

‘No one in this silly, endearing show tries to compete with her’

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IF YOU PURCHASED AN ASUS ROG STRIX GL502VS OR GL502VSK LAPTOP BETWEEN MAY 4, 2014, AND NOVEMBER 19, 2019, A CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS. A proposed class action settlement has been reached in a case entitled Carlotti, et al. v. ASUS Computer International, et al., No. 4:18-cv-03369, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. In the lawsuit, Plaintiff alleges that the ASUS Rog Strix GL502VS and GL502VSK laptops (the “Laptops”) were deceptively marketed as powerful, portable machines ideal for gaming and video editing with independent cooling systems to give the Laptops “stability required for intense gaming sessions.” Plaintiff alleges that the Laptops are not suitable for their ordinary and advertised purpose because the Laptops’ batteries drain even when the Laptops are connected to electrical outlets (the “Power Defect”). Plaintiff also alleges that the Laptops’ cooling systems are not independent because they use one set of heatsinks to dissipate heat from both the graphics processing unit and computational processing unit, so the Laptops overheat, leading to physical discomfort and/or diminishing the Laptops’ performance and durability (the “Overheating Issue”).

ASUS Computer International and ASUSTeK Computer Inc. are the defendants (“Defendants”) and deny any wrongdoing.

If the Settlement is approved and you are a Class Member, you may be eligible to receive a Cash Payment in the amount of either $110 or $55 or a Credit Certificate in the amount of either $210 or $105 at your option. You are a Class Member if you purchased a new ASUS Rog Strix GL502VS or GL502VSK laptop from Defendants or an authorized ASUS retailer after May 4, 2014 in the United States. Additionally, Defendants have extended the warranty for GL502VS laptops that suffered from the Power Defect. Call Defendants’ technical support at 1-888-678-3688 to receive instructions for obtaining Extended Warranty service. You may receive a Cash Payment or Credit Certificate even if you obtain Extended Warranty service.

TV | Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector

DRAMA Three years after being paralyzed by (literally) falling into a serial killer’s trap, Det. Lincoln Rhyme (Russell Hornsby) is hit by a grim suspicion: The murderer, never caught, may have resurfaced. The premiere episode sets things up with cool understatement. (NBC, Jan. 10, 8 p.m.)

To obtain a Cash Payment, you must submit a valid Claim Form. To obtain a Credit Certificate, you must submit a valid Claim Form unless you complained to Defendants about a Power Defect and/or Overheating Issue prior to March 19, 2019. If your complaint is reflected in Defendants’ records, then you will automatically receive a $210 Credit Certificate (“Automatic Credit Certificate”).

If you prefer a Cash Payment, then you must submit a Claim Form. Claim Forms are available at www.ASUSLaptopSettlement.com. Depending on the benefit you request, Defendants may have the right to demand an inspection of your Laptop to confirm that your Claim is valid and you may have to provide proof of purchase. Visit www.ASUSLaptopSettlement.com for more information about the inspection process and conditions.

The Court will hold a Final Approval Hearing on April 30, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. PST, to consider whether to approve the Settlement. The hearing will be held in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, before Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu, in the Oakland Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94612, in courtroom 4 on the 3rd floor, or such other judge assigned by the Court. The Court will decide whether to approve the Settlement and whether to award Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses of up to $787,500 and an Incentive Award of up to $5,000 to Plaintiff. The motion seeking Attorneys’ Fees and Expenses and an Incentive Award will be posted on www.ASUSLaptopSettlement.com after it is filed. You may, but don’t have to, attend the hearing. Cash Payments and Credit Certificates will be issued to the Settlement Class Members only if the Settlement is approved and after any Objections are resolved. Please be patient.

For more information, visit www.ASUSLaptopSettlement.com, or contact the Claim Administrator by email at Info@ASUSLaptopSettlement.com or by phone at 1-844-263-6122. You can also obtain additional information by contacting Class Counsel at: Seth A. Safier, Gutride Safier LLP, 100 Pine Street, Suite 1250, San Francisco, CA 94111/Tel: 415-639-9090.

PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT DEFENDANTS OR THE COURT TO INQUIRE ABOUT THE SETTLEMENT.

NETFLIX | The Healing Powers of Dude

FAMILY Coping with social anxiety disorder, Noah (Jace Chapman) can barely make it past the doorway of his middle school.

Things start to improve when he gets an emotional-support dog named Dude (whose inner thoughts are voiced by Steve Zahn). Very cute. (Launches Jan. 13)

MUSIC | Selena Gomez, Rare

POP Gomez has overcome health setbacks and heartbreak since 2015’s Revival—and this soulful new album, on which her voice is as sultry as ever, lets us know just how far she’s come. Vulnerable yet empowered, she serves up anthems of self-affirmation. “I’m one in a billion baby/ Don’t you agree?” she muses on the standout “Ring.” (Jan. 10)

For more on Gomez, see page 88.

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You may make a Claim and/or receive Qualifying Repairs under the Extended Warranty, Object, Opt Out, or do nothing. To receive a Cash Payment or Credit Certificate, you must submit a Claim (unless you qualify for an Automatic Credit Certificate), online or by mail, by April 3, 2020. To receive a Qualifying Repair under the Extended Warranty, you must contact Defendants at 1-888-678-3688, and follow their instructions. If you Opt Out of the Settlement, you may pursue a separate lawsuit, but you will receive no settlement benefit. Your Opt-Out request must be submitted online or postmarked by April 3, 2020. If you do not Opt Out, you give up your right to bring a separate lawsuit. To Object, you must submit a written Objection that complies with the requirements set forth in the Settlement Notice available at www.ASUSLaptopSettlement.com. Your Objection must be filed with the Court

by April 3, 2020. Do nothing, and you will not receive a settlement benefit (unless you qualify for an Automatic Credit Certificate) and you will release claims against Defendants that relate to the Allegations in the lawsuit. You may still obtain repairs under the Extended Warranty, if applicable.

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With 2% milk, at least half of adults had a lower desire to eat than before breakfast for 3 1/2 hours.

Holy Fathers: Jude Law (left) and John Malkovich.

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TV | The New Pope

John Malkovich roams toward Rome COMEDY-DRAMA Like its predecessor The Young Pope, New Pope is enticingly sumptuous and playfully baffling: It’s hard to know what to make of a convent of nuns who, once lights are out, slip from their cots and perform a disco dance. Pius XIII (Jude Law) has suffered a catastrophic heart attack, reducing him to a ghost who pops up from time to time.

Vatican officials angle to replace him with a sorrowful, eccentric English aristocrat (John Malkovich). (He’s friends with Meghan Markle: “I’m adamant—wear the yellow Dior,” he tells her on the phone.) In its peculiar way, the show is much more serious about faith and ambition than Netflix’s amiable film The Two Popes. (HBO, Jan. 13, 9 p.m.)

N ew o n S tr ea m in g + D V D !

Judy

The Lighthouse

Western Stars

Renée Zellweger is smashing—full of heartbreak and razzmatazz—as the legendary Judy Garland in her final days. (iTunes)

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson play strangers surrounded by churning seas and surrendering to monsters and/or madness.

Barmy. (Amazon)

With his trademark grit and tough glamour, Bruce Springsteen performs all the songs from his magnificent 2019 album. (Amazon)

MOVIE | DRAMA

MOVIE | HORROR

MOVIE | CONCERT

10 LAYERS

OF WHEAT

Q&A

IN EVERY BITE

Tamara Taylor

The Bones alum, 49, stars in Netflix’s sci-fi series October Faction, launching Jan. 23.

TV | 68 Whiskey

COMEDY-DRAMA Co-executive produced

by Ron Howard, Whiskey is about the hair-raising, often happily irresponsible exploits of a medical unit in Afghanistan.

While there’s nothing that feels really new in the premiere—it’s 37 years since M*A*S*H went off the air—the young cast is fresh, strong and attractive.

(Paramount Network, Jan. 15, 10 p.m.)

TV | Screen Actors Guild Awards

With costar J.C. MacKenzie.

Were you afraid of monsters growing up?

Oh yeah! I was convinced there was a monster living under my bed. I’m still afraid of the dark, not going to lie.

You played Dr. Camille Saroyan on Bones for 11 years. What do you miss most?

The beautiful cast. Talk about family! I miss the impromptu dancing on-set that we seemed to get into over decomposing bodies. That was totally normal.

—CHRISTINA DUGAN

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Jennifer Lopez, scoring one of the year’s biggest movie comebacks, is in the running for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for her bold yet sly performance in Hustlers. Is an Oscar nomination on the way?

This is a formidable category, though: She’s up against Laura Dern (Marriage Story), Scarlett Johansson (Jojo Rabbit) and Bombshell stars Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. (TNT and TBS, Jan. 19, 8 p.m.)

What can viewers expect from OF? It’s a show about family first, but within it we deal with race and prejudice. The monsters are kind of a metaphor for a fear of the other.

SILENCE

YOUR

GROWL Hart performing on tour and (inset) with son Kenzo

NETFLIX | Kevin Hart: Don’t F**k This Up

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A messy year for a hot comedian

DOCUMENTARY Shot before the star’s car accident, this docuseries follows Hart as he maps out his career and builds his image: He takes a meeting with Idris Elba for a remake of the 1974 movie Uptown Saturday Night. He organizes a stand-up tour. He also torpedoes his chances of hosting the Oscars, thanks to an incomprehensibly truculent response to allegations that some of his old material is homophobic. And an extramarital fling is exposed. Don’t is essentially Hart back in strategizing, image-building mode: When life gives you lemons, make teachable moments. (Streaming now)

NETFLIX | Dracula

HORROR Danish actor Claes Bang plays the famous vampire without the customary air of silken, campy depravity (except, perhaps, when he refers to flies as “sweet little things”). Lapping up blood with athletic brio, this Dracula is such an eager, confident seducer—of both men and women—that even the fangs aren’t a deal breaker. (Streaming now)

one to watch

With Athena Karkanis.

ManifestÕs Luna Blaise

After a breakout turn on ABC’s Fresh off the Boat, the L.A. native, 18, landed a lead role on NBC’s series about a plane that mysteriously goes missing for five years. Fans are taking notice—especially when she boards a flight. “People are like, ‘Uhoh, here we go,’ ” says Blaise. “It’s really funny.” —B R I A N N E T R A C Y

AN ABANDONED CAR. A MYSTERIOUS TEXT. A FAILING MARRIAGE. WHAT HAPPENED TO

CHERYL COKER?

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The Best New Books A missing sister in Philly, Mrs. Winston Churchill

reimagined and a beauty queen’s mysterious end

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Amy K. Green The Prized Girl

book of the week

Liz Moore Long Bright River

NOVEL A murderer lurks in the opioid-ridden streets of Philadelphia where Mickey Fitzpatrick works as a beat cop. When her addict sister goes missing, Mickey launches a search that puts herself, her son and her career at risk. This is a police procedural and a thriller par excellence, one in which the city of Philadelphia itself is a character (think Boston and Mystic River). But it’s also a literary tale narrated by a strong woman with a richly drawn personal life—powerful and genre-defying.

A feel-good bestseller Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is a surprise hit

When Clementine Hozier gets to know magnetic up-and-comer Winston Churchill in 1908, she’s captivated. Six months later she and the future PM marry. Clementine manages the household, fights for women’s suffrage and advises her “Pug”— helping to shape history.

A fascinating fictionalized account of the consummate political wife.

NOVEL A teenage pageant queen has been raped and murdered in the woods of a suburban New England town. She leaves behind a snarky older sister, two pervy male fans, a pedophile math teacher, an alcoholic mom, a secretive dad, a boyfriend with a knife fetish . . . The question isn’t so much whodunit as who didnÕt do it in this darkly funny thriller with a shocker ending.

It started when Mackesy, a British illustrator, began posting his drawings of a boy and a horse on Instagram, along with their searching conversations. (“What is the bravest thing you’ve ever said?” asked the boy. “Help,” said the horse.) The simple profundity struck a chord, a mole and a fox joined in, and Mackesy’s slim volume featuring the questioning quartet has been near the top of U.K. and U.S. bestseller lists since its publication in October.

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Property BrothersÕ Drew + Jonathan Scott

READY FOR BIG CHANGES! THEY’VE ALREADY B U I LT T H E B U S I N E S S OF THEIR DREAMS, BUT F O R T H E H G T V S TA R S , THE BEST IS YET TO CO M E , A S J O N AT H A N ENJOYS NEW LOVE A N D D R E W P R E PA R E S T O S TA R T A F A M I LY

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Photographs by CHRIS McPHERSON

Jonathan (left) and Drew Scott in Los Angeles on Dec. 14.

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onathan and Drew Scott have always been go-getters. Over the past decade the identical twins have gone from eager entrepreneurs struggling to get by to self-made multimillionaires, all thanks to a little luck and a lot of hard work. Now proudly at the helm of a massive home-improvement empire—which includes their hit HGTV series Property Brothers and its four spinoffs, a global entertainment company, endorsement deals, furniture and decor lines, an app, four books and their new quarterly lifestyle magazine Reveal (which is published by Meredith, People’s parent company)—Jonathan and Drew, 41, are happily welcoming some big changes into their lives. And that means more time spent with the women they love. Jonathan began dating New Girl star Zooey Deschanel, 40, in September. “I stumbled into a relationship that I wasn’t expecting, and it’s the best thing I’ve ever experienced,” he says. “So now I actually want to put effort and time toward that.” For Drew and his wife of nearly two years, Linda Phan, 34, that shift is about expanding their family. “One of the big things for us is taking more time for ourselves,” Drew says. “We want to have kids soon.” The brothers agree that they’ve never been happier.

“We’re doing what we love, and we’re in relationships with people we love,” says Jonathan. Adds Drew: “I can’t think of a better path.”

‘WE LIKE TO GOOF OFF A LOT, SO IF YOU DON’T LIKE TO HAVE FUN, YOU’RE OUT’ —DREW

So much has changed since you started filming Property Brothers 10 years ago. What’s been the biggest surprise?

DREW My life was completely different. I was

Jonathan, you’re in a new relationship with Zooey Deschanel. Was it love at first sight?

JONATHAN We were shooting Carpool Karaoke,

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make each other laugh nonstop. I have never been in a relationship where my partner is as romantic as, if not more romantic than, I am. I’m usually the one who carries the romantic load.

She’s smarter than me, she’s funnier than me, and she’s cuter than me!

DREW Linda and I have noticed that they connect on an individual level as well, which is great.

They’re both amazing humans, and we love the idea of having her in our lives. Our older brother J.D. just got married too, so there’s been lots of triple and double dates. We are total nerds, so our first double date with Jonathan and Zooey was dinner and an escape room. It was awesome.

GROOMER: ANNALEE BELLE; PROP STYLIST: WANTED PD; STYLIST: CHARLOTTE JENKINS; (DREW) JACKET: LEVI’S; SWEATSHIRT: J.CREW; JEANS: PAIGE; (JONATHAN) JACKET & T-SHIRT: JOHN VARVATOS; SHIRT: RAG & BONE; JEANS: CITIZENS OF HUMANITY

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always single. I was determined, focused and working all the time. To think now I’ve met Linda, the love of my life, I married this beautiful woman, and we’re looking to have a family. The Drew from 10 years ago would have been like, “No. That’s not going to happen. You’re the one that’s all work-driven.”

JONATHAN We were just a couple of guys who loved real estate and the “before and after,” so the fact that we now air in over 160 countries, and our shows create trends, and we have this impact . . . it’s fascinating!

THE WOMEN WHO HAVE THEIR HEARTS After six years of dating, Drew and Linda Phan, now the creative director at Scott Brothers Global, were married in Italy in May 2018. “She connects with people and is very engaging,” says Drew.

“I think she draws people in with her personality.”

Jonathan went through a painful divorce in 2009 and later ended a three-year relationship with Jacinta Kuznetsov in April 2018. After taking time to focus on himself, he met actress and singer Zooey Deschanel in August. “Maybe the universe was like, ‘Hey, all right, you did it. Here you go,’ and rewarded me with the gift of love.”

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THEIR EXPANDING EMPIRE

From product lines to a new podcast, Jonathan and Drew Scott’s many booming businesses have certainly paid off. In 2018 total sales for their Scott Living brand topped half a billion dollars.

At Home with Linda & Drew Scott

The couple launched the podcast on Jan. 2. “We’re inviting guests over to chat about the messiness that makes a house a home,” Drew wrote on Instagram.

Did Zooey fit in right away with the Scott family?

JONATHAN It’s very, very important for me

that the person I’m in love with also gets the approval of my whole family. Absolutely everybody has clicked with Zooey. She’s a very considerate person, and that’s what I’m looking for. I had said before that the most important thing for me was a sense of humor. But you have to be kind, and she definitely is.

DREW Here’s what also makes her a rock star: She sang my dad’s favorite song, “Danny Boy,” to him over FaceTime. She also made Yorkshire pudding, which is my absolute all-time favorite.

When did you introduce her to the family?

JONATHAN I invited her to J.D. and Annalee’s

wedding on Halloween, and that was a big step, because all of a sudden that was the first time she was meeting all my family. It was amazing. The fun thing too for me is she can go out, and she can work the room and talk to people, introduce herself. It’s a totally different experience for me.

Jonathan, have you noticed that the Internet can’t seem to get enough of your new romance?

JONATHAN The funniest is everyone’s like,

Reveal Magazine

“For us, food, home, travel—it’s all one big package,” says Drew of their new publication that launches this month.

“Inspiring people with every aspect of their life is important to us.”

Subscribe now at people.com/reveal.

Forever Home

For the upcoming season of their home-reno spinoff (premiering on HGTV later this year), Jonathan and Drew completed 40 simultaneous renovations in Toronto in less than nine months.

“She’s dating who?!” But I’ve got perks! I can fix your plumbing, I can paint, I can design a space, I can . . . I’ve got all kinds of perks! But definitely I don’t think it was expected. We come from very different worlds on the surface, but it’s uncanny how many things we have in common, from both having an equestrian background, to our education, to everything.

‘WHEN WE’RE NOT FILMING, WE LOVE TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER. WE HAVE THE SAME NERDY LIKES’ —DREW

Drew, you and Linda are coming up on two years of marriage. Do you get a lot of questions about starting a family?

DREW We do get it a lot, especially from my

parents. We are looking forward to having kids.

In the meantime we’re getting a lot of practice babysitting our nieces and nephews.

JONATHAN Are you saying that 2020 is the year of the babies?

DREW Well, I’m not saying we have one ready to go, but hopefully soon!

Brother vs.

Brother

Jonathan and Drew filmed season 5 of their sibling-rivalry competition series in San Francisco.

The brothers have a full line of fixtures, furniture and home accents, including this three-way table lamp ($69.98), available at Lowe’s stores and lowes.com.

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Scott Living Kohls Line

Available at Kohls stores and kohls.com, the Scott Living jar candles ($27) come in fun scents like Date Night and Cozy Night.

DREW I think it’s spending less time working

and more time with ourselves. If we’re always on the road filming and working, it’s really tough to grow a family. I don’t want to keep delaying.

I know Linda is going to be an amazing mom, and I hope I’ll be a great dad. So I think very soon you’ll see us announcing to the world. I wonder

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S c o t t L i v i n g f o r L o w e ’s

Are your busy schedules a factor?

A Tr u e Partnership

“We’re definitely good at dividing and conquering,” Jonathan says of working with Drew.

if they’ll have my height or Linda’s looks.

JONATHAN Hopefully definitely Linda’s looks!

And that’s coming from a guy who looks like you.

You are primarily filming on the West Coast this year. Is it nice being in one place for a change?

DREW We are closer to home, which is nice.

Less time on the road, less flying, which means more time together with Linda for me and Zooey for Jonathan.

JONATHAN There’s still a little bit of chaos because we spend time in different cities and different places. But I’m definitely spending more time in L.A. Having the home in Vegas is great, but we’re not there a heck of a lot. Really, for me, it’s about spending every ounce of downtime I can with Zooey. It’s nice to actually have a reason to come and be in L.A. other than just to third-wheel with Drew and Linda.

You have built your businesses as a unit. How do you feel about launching solo projects?

DREW Linda and I are starting our podcast At

Home with Linda and Drew Scott, but it’s still a part of us as a family and us as a whole. It’s a great thing for Linda and me to be able to sit down and have conversations, but it really does tie into what we do as a whole. Even if Jonathan wants to go and do a short-run tour with his magic, I would be there to support. So even when we go off and do our own things, it’s still a part of the whole.

Why did you decide to launch your new lifestyle magazine Reveal?

JONATHAN We’ve been moving down this path,

inspiring people, for years and years, and we want to take it to the next level. We want to do something that’s a little bit different and talk about how it all starts at home, but home impacts every other aspect of your life.

DREW For us, it’s opening up a little more with our lives, and then it’s also bringing in amazing people who are sharing their life stories as well.

I think that’s how we can inspire people.

What are you most looking forward to in the next decade?

DREW Who knows what the future’s going to

hold for us? I think we’ll stay rooted, like we have been our whole lives, to family and to raising the bar, making sure we always keep our word with everything that we’re going to do. Family is the most important thing to us.

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TOWNS DEVASTATED, LIVES LOST

A kangaroo races past a burning house in Lake Conjola on Dec. 31 after wildfires tore through the bucolic coastal village 135 miles south of Sydney.

AUSTRALIA ABLAZE D E VA S TAT I N G F I R E S H AV E D E S T R OY E D M I L L I O N S O F AC R E S , L E F T T H O U S A N D S H O M E L E S S A N D K I L L E D N E A R LY H A L F A BILLION ANIMALS —WITH NO END IN SIGHT By J O H N N Y D O D D

HOW TO HELP

The following are among the charities helping those affected by the fires: Australian Red Cross redcross.org.au The Salvation Army Australia salvationarmy.org.au RSPCA New South Wales rspcansw.org.au FLEEING THE FLAMES

After bushfires ravaged the coastal town of Mallacoota (in the state of Victoria) on Jan. 2, more than 1,000 stranded residents and tourists were evacuated by Australian military personnel.

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ven from outer space the churning clouds of white smoke from the explosive wildfires that have been ravaging much of Australia in recent weeks look threatening. But down on the charred ground—where thousands of residents have been evacuated by naval ships, entire towns have been reduced to ash and millions of acres of eucalyptus forests and bushland continue to burn—the situation is catastrophic. “We’ve never seen fires like this,” Jim Radford, a researcher at Melbourne’s La Trobe University, told The New York Times. “It really is an ecological Armageddon.”

So far 136 different fires have claimed 24 human lives, burned more than 14.8 million acres and killed nearly half a billion animals, driving some species to near extinction. “It was terrible,” said one elderly woman who was evacuated from the seaside town of Mallacoota. “I will never go back.”

Australians have long battled massive bushfires during the country’s dry season, but a record three-year drought and temperatures upward of 110° this year made the country particularly vulnerable to the fires, which experts trace to a variety of causes, including lightning strikes and arson. “Climate change didn’t cause these fires, but it set the stage for making them more devastating,” says Bob Deans, with the National Resources Defense Council. As celebs like Chris Hemsworth and his family pledged $1 million and Pink, Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman each contributed $500,000 to local firefighters, officials fear the worst may be yet to come. “The crisis is not over,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Jan. 5. “There are months to go.”

With reporting by K.C. Baker

AN UNPRECEDENTED DISASTER

Massive plumes of smoke rose thousands of feet into the sky above the wildfires in East Gippsland on Jan. 2.

BY THE NUMBERS

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SKIES TURNED BLOOD RED

Pollution caused by the fires has diminished the air quality throughout the area, forcing officials to distribute smoke masks to residents.

Number of fires burning across New South Wales (at press time)

480 MILLION

Number of animals that have died

Darwin

14.8 MILLION Number of acres burned across the country

$1.39 BILLION

Amount of money allocated to relief funds by the Australian government

1,300

Number of homes destroyed in the fires

Perth Brisbane Hundreds of wildfire hot spots can be seen burning across Australia in this 3D visualization of the blazes.

A N I M A L C A S U A LT I E S

Firefighters in New South Wales rescuing a koala in late November.

“The situation is dire,” says Animal PlanetÕs Terri Irwin, whose Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital is at capacity with injured animals.

Adelaide Sydney Melbourne Hobart

WEDDING S P EC I A L

They Said ‘I Do!’

T H E S E S TA R S A R E R I N G I N G IN THE NEW YEAR WITH LOVE By A I L I N A H A S

Pure Bliss

Guests, including soccer champion Megan Rapinoe (third from right) posed with the couple.

The newlyweds exchanged rings by Great Heights.

Ali Krieger & Ashlyn Harris DEC. 28

The goal of a lifetime! Pro soccer stars Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris tied the knot in Miami at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a venue that fit their “classic and clean” vision. “To be celebrated for love and inclusion, that’s so major in the world we live in now,” says Harris, 34, who wore a custom Thom Browne suit. Adds Krieger, 35, who wore a Pronovias gown: “We feel confident in the foundation we’ve built . . . this is starting the rest of our lives.”

Tomlin held a binder with a photo from the couple’s first date.

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Kathy Griffin & Randy Bick DEC. 31

Just hours after Kathy Griffin announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend and tour manager Randy Bick, the couple tied the knot in an intimate ceremony officiated by Lily Tomlin, 80, at the couple’s L.A. home. In a sweet touch the comedian, 59, wore the same Diane von Furstenberg dress that she wore on her first date with Bick, 41, in 2011. The couple opted to exchange “toy rings” for the ceremony because “neither one of us like wearing rings,” explains Griffin. Post-nuptials, the giddy bride tweeted: “We are in love and we cannot stop laughing.”

CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: COURTESY KATHY GRIFFIN; LUVROX PHOTOGRAPHY(3)

A-List Officiant

Vanessa Morgan & Michael Kopech JAN. 4

COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: ALLAN ZEPEDA; FELIPE ESPINAL & CELINA BROGAN(3); ALLAN ZEPEDA

When Riverdale star Vanessa Morgan, 27, married her boyfriend, pro baseball player Michael Kopech, 23, in Homestead, Fla., it was an event filled with unique touches. Guests, including Morgan’s costars Madelaine Petsch and Skeet Ulrich, admired tropical birds during cocktail hour, received love predictions from a psychic and posed for photos in a retro Volkswagen bus.

Says the bride: “It was truly the perfect day.”

Erin Foster & Simon Tikhman DEC. 31

Writer and Bumble entrepreneur Erin Foster, 37, wed businessman Simon Tikhman at Saddle Woods Farm outside Nashville, as family and friends, including the bride’s sister Sara Foster, stepmother Katharine McPhee and close pal Kate Hudson looked on. “I got to marry the love of my life,” TV star Foster wrote on Instagram Jan. 2, joking, “Hopefully will never have to look at a seating chart again.”

Joyful Memories

Bonded by Love

The couple exchanged rings by the Diamond Guys. Left: The bride primped with her Riverdale costar Petsch.

The bride’s dad, music producer David Foster, walked her down the aisle. Right: Hudson belted out karaoke tunes later in the evening.

Additional reporting by MELODY CHIU and JASON DUAINE HAHN

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HE WAS BORN WITH TREACHER COLLINS, THE SYNDROME F E AT U R E D I N T H E N OV E L W O N D E R . N O W T H I S T E E N AG E B O Y— A N D T H E M O T H E R A L W AY S AT H I S S I D E —T E L L T H E I R OWN INCREDIBLE STORY By M I C H E L L E B O W E R S

By the time Magda and Russel Newman got to the

hospital delivery room on Feb. 7, 2004, Magda had already labored through the night. Hers had been a healthy pregnancy—at the six-month sonogram, her doctor noted only that the baby’s “nose looks big”—and the 24-year-old was excited to deliver her first child. Magda recalls Russel, then 35, cheering her on: “You’ve got this! I see the head!”

Then came a terrifying silence. Magda saw Russel grab his hair as the delivery team hustled the newborn to an adjacent alcove. The stunned stillness was broken by Russel’s wails of “Oh God, oh my God!” It was then that Magda caught her first glimpse of Nathaniel, with his cone-shaped head, 66

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A M o t h e r ’s Devotion

Magda (at home with Nathaniel in December) says she spent his first 10 years in “a constant state of panic.”

He calls her “extraordinary . . . she did so much of the worrying and had to deal with medical stuff that really grossed her out.”

A ROUGH ROAD

Nathaniel (with Magda in the NICU) had almost no jaw, struggled to breathe and couldn’t nurse.

A tracheostomy performed when he was 6 weeks old allowed him to breathe through a tube in his neck.

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By age 5, “he wanted to do all the things kids do,” says Russel. “We refused to make him a bubble boy.”

has endured nearly 70 surgeries to allow him to breathe, hear, swallow and speak. At home in Sammamish, Wash., with his brother Jacob, 13, Nathaniel says Treacher Collins, which affects 1 in 50,000, is what “normal” is to him. “I’ve always known I was different. I like to think I’m strong. If we were all ‘normal,’ we’d all have to be the same.”

Such wisdom is something Magda and Russel couldn’t even imagine back when they were struggling through each day. At 6 weeks old, Nathaniel nearly died from respiratory failure. An emergency tracheotomy installed a stoma in his throat that would require constant monitoring and limit his activity (no swimming or showering alone) for the next 13 years. During a surgery at age 2 to open

‘I wouldn’t take away my condition if I magically could.

It’s part of who I am’ —NATHANIEL NEWMAN

GRACE UNDER PRESSURE

In an excerpt from Normal, Nathaniel talks about how he has learned to handle stares—and worse—from strangers.

When I was younger and kids stared at me, I didn’t notice.

If I noticed, I ignored it. Because I let insults roll over my shoulders, I don’t remember too many stories about specific incidents, but there’s one that I do remember. At the end of second grade, we moved from Connecticut back to Charlotte, N.C. It was the end of October, almost Halloween, and Dad took me and my brother Jacob to get frozen yogurt. Mine was drowning in peanut butter cups, my favorite. We sat down outside to enjoy our desserts when a grownup came up to me and said, “Wow, where did you get such a cool mask? I wish I had a mask like that for Halloween.” This guy looked like he thought he’d just made the funniest joke in the world.

My dad was about to explode. I know because he told me afterwards. But he’s taught me to be polite. So I smiled at the guy and said, “It’s not a mask. It’s my face.” I just hit him with the simple facts.

Then I went back to eating my yogurt.

It was outstanding.

Excerpted from Normal: One Kid’s Extraordinary Journey by Magdalena & Nathaniel Newman, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on Jan. 14, 2020. Copyright © 2020. All rights reserved.

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swollen eyes and misshapen ear. “No one would show him to me,” she writes in her new memoir, Normal: A Mother and Her Beautiful Son. “Then I saw his profile. . . . Something was very wrong.” She asked her doctor: “Did I deliver an alien?”

Fifteen years later Magda cringes at those words. But Nathaniel takes them in typical teenage stride. “Yeah . . . my own mother thought I was an alien. Nice,” the high school sophomore writes in the companion memoir for young readers, titled Normal: One Kid’s Extraordinary Journey.

Diagnosed with a severe case of Treacher Collins syndrome—a congenital disorder in which underdeveloped bones in the face and jaw cause sloped eyes, missing or malformed ears and blocked airways, but no mental disabilities—Nathaniel could easily be the real-life Auggie Pullman of R.J. Palacio’s 2012 novel Wonder. But the author met the Newmans only after she hit the bestseller list and her viral “Choose H o l l y w o o d ’s Kind” movement transTa k e formed how the world Nathaniel saw children with facial auditioned differences. “It spread a lot for—but didn’t get—the role of understanding,” Nathaniel of Auggie in says of the book, which became 2017’s Wonder, a 2017 film. It was Palacio who starring (above) encouraged Magda—a former Julia Roberts concert pianist—and Nathanand Jacob iel to write their story. “What Tremblay.

I love is there’s nothing heroic; they’re just living their lives,” says Palacio. “Magda and Russel are committed to giving Nathaniel a normal life without feeling sorry for themselves.

That’s what makes them wonders.”

Normal is a tricky concept for Nathaniel, who

Nathaniel (age 3) has little sense of smell and, without his hearing aids, is entirely deaf.

“I had to protect Nathaniel when we were younger, before Wonder,” says his brother Jacob.

“I was his bodyguard.”

his airway, the surgeon accidentally drilled into Nathaniel’s brain. When he was 12 he became the second child to undergo a groundbreaking “halo” surgery that sewed his eyes and jaw shut, broke almost every bone in his face, and installed rods with screws that, for three months, the Newmans would tighten daily (“barbaric,” Magda calls it) to realign his jaw and open his airway so the trach could come out. Following the surgery, Nathaniel’s heart stopped for 22 seconds.

Amid all this, the couple had genetic counseling

Fa m i l y M a t t e r s Magda (with Russel and their sons) says Nathaniel’s trials made him strong “and that strength will serve him forever.”

and prenatal testing and added son Jacob to the family. They also moved seven times to accommodate Russel’s work for insurance companies— the only way they could chip away at Nathaniel’s medical bills, which top $1.6 million and counting.

Unthinkably, Magda, who stayed home to care for Nathaniel full-time, twice battled cancer during this span, including stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She recalls how, after accepting that “God picked me to raise this child,” she railed against him: “Where are you? Are you kidding me?” Now cancer-free, she and Russel credit their son with getting them through the crises.

“Nathaniel never said, ‘Why me?’ ” Russel says, “so how could we?”

Today Nathaniel is free of his trach, able to trampoline and roll around with the family’s four dogs. He’s working on his black belt in tae kwon do and hopes to be a veterinarian. “I love how happy animals get when you care for them,” he says. His parents have put off thinking ahead to the prospect of Nathaniel starting his own family. He has a 50 percent chance of passing on Treacher Collins, though genetic testing and IVF could mitigate that risk. “Whether or not he has children—and how—is a moral decision we will leave to Nathaniel,” says Magda. Right now they’re just savoring the normal. “What we look like on the outside is a shell. True beauty comes from the way we treat others,” Magda says. And in that, she adds, “I feel so lucky. We have it all.”

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Jennifer Garner’s Homegrown Passion T H E S TA R W E N T B AC K TO H E R R O OT S — A N D H E R F A M I LY ’ S F A R M — F O R H E R L AT E S T P R OJ E C T

By A N A C A L D E R O N E

Jennifer Garner has a case of the butterflies. She’s not anxious about a new movie or a red carpet appearance—she’s just hoping that kids will enjoy her latest organic baby food, Jen & the Giant Squash. It’s the first product in her Once Upon a Farm line, made with produce from her family’s farm in Locust Grove, Okla., where her mom, Patricia, grew up, and her uncle and aunt Robert and Janet English live now, growing organic squash on the previously dormant farm.“I always collaborate on the flavors, but this is the first time I’ve ever said, ‘Okay, I think it should be this,’ ” Garner, 47, says. “I’m so nervous. I just hope they like it so I get to do it again.” She called from a ski vacation with Violet, 14, Seraphina, 11, and Samuel, 7, the three kids she shares with ex-husband Ben Affleck, to chat about food and “finding joy” in the new decade.

This new baby food is two years in the making. How does it feel now that it’s finally ready?

It’s so exciting. I can’t believe that we’re going to have something that was actually grown on the farm where my mom grew up, by my uncle, and I got to do the recipe.

It’s just so fun.

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Was your mom involved?

No, other than cheering us on. Of anything I’ve ever done, this means the most to my mom—that her farm is being brought back to life, and it’s growing things for babies. It’s just the coolest.

You have your own little farm at home in California. How’s that going?

It’s really a garden. But yes, I will always—even if I moved back to New York City—find a way to have a garden. There’s nothing better than knowing that you’re eating food that you grew.

What’s the latest with Hennifer and your other chickens?

They’re all molting, which is the time of year when they lose their feathers and new feathers grow in and they look crazy. They all look hungover.

[Laughs] They don’t lay while they molt except for Hennifer. I don’t know if that’s normal, but she’s so faithful, every day you go out there and there’s a little Hennifer egg.

How do you decide what to make on your Pretend Cooking Show on Instagram and Facebook?

I only do things that I’m seriously about to make, and then we’re just like, “Oh, you know what, let’s just film this.” I don’t stop and brush my

A New Crop

Above: Garner with her uncle Robert English (left), who farmed the squash for the baby food, and Ari Raz, Once Upon a Farm’s cofounder and president. Right: the puree of coldpressed squash, apples, dates, coconut milk, oat and cinnamon is available at onceupona farmorganics.com. The full line is at grocery stores nationwide.

hair or put on makeup or anything. It’s always very spur of the moment.

Did you do a lot of baking over the holidays?

Yes. Oh my gosh, I made bagels twice. I made pumpkin bread, banana bread, pretzels, pretzel bites. I cooked every night. I think it just makes my kids feel cozy.

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What are you looking forward to most in 2020?

‘Of anything I’ve ever done, this means the most to my mom— that her farm is being brought back to life’ —JENNIFER GARNER

It feels like a fresh start. I’m loving working on Yes Day right now for Netflix. It’s a movie [based on the bestselling kids’ book] that I developed and am producing as well as starring in. I couldn’t love the process more. If I could be lucky enough to have another year with three healthy kids and parents and sisters and nieces and nephews and friends . . . and we’re all going through whatever, but if we’re all still chugging along and finding joy, then okay, that’s good enough for me.

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Tracking a Serial Killer

THE TEXAS KILLING FIELDS SINCE 1971 THE BODIES OF D O Z E N S O F YO U N G W O M E N H AV E B E E N F O U N D O N A D E S O L AT E STRIP OF LAND OUTSIDE LEAGUE C I T Y. N O W , A S D N A R E V E A L S THE IDENTITIES OF THE LAST TWO OF THOSE WOMEN, POLICE HOPE FOR A BREAK IN THE CASE

By E L A I N E A R A D I L L A S

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Photograph by SARAH WILSON

INSETS: LEAGUE CITY POLICE(2)

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n the afternoon of Feb. 2, 1986, two boys riding their dirt bikes through an overgrown 25-acre expanse of land along Calder Road in League City, Texas, became overwhelmed by a sickening smell. They thought it might be the decaying corpse of a dog or maybe a deer, but as they traced the smell to its origin, they found something far more horrifying: the decomposing bodies of two young women. Investigators soon identified the first body as 16-year-old Clear Creek High School sophomore Laura Miller, last seen at a pay phone nearly two years earlier. But police NO LONGER had no idea who the other UNKNOWN woman was—and Jane Doe remained unidentified.

Five years later, horseback riders making their way through the brush and mesquite trees in the same area came upon another decomposing body—just yards away from where the others had been found. And again police couldn’t identify the woman. Janet Doe joined Jane Doe in the League City coroner’s office.

Since 1971 dozens of murder victims have been found in and near the eerie stretch of land along the Interstate For nearly 45 corridor between Galthree decades the veston and Houston—the bodies of Audrey Lee Cook (top) and “killing fields,” to locals— Donna Gonsoulin and police believe at least Prudhomme were some of the murders are unidentified by police. “Now that connected. “A lot of heartwe know who they ache,” says FBI Superviare,” says Richard sor Senior Resident Agent Rennison of the FBI, “we are closer Richard Rennison of the to solving the case.” case. “A lot of people not knowing what happened to their loved ones. A lot of unanswered questions.”

Now law enforcement, aided by new

worked with authorities to process the women’s DNA profiles. “We gave a voice to the dead.”

Not knowing the identities of Jane and Janet Doe

DNA AND EVIDENCE

FBI and League City Police (at an April 15 press conference) found victims’ identities by tracking DNA markers in family-genealogy databases. “This opened doors to leads to identify the killer,” says Agent Rennison.

Connected by a Killer?

Dozens of victims have been found along the notorious I-45 corridor known as the Texas killing fields. While some of the cases have been solved, others remain open and possibly connected, including those of Heide Fye, Audrey Cook, Laura Miller and Donna Gonsoulin Prudhomme. “Science is evolving, and that goes in our favor,” says Rennison. “I’m very optimistic.”

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Brenda Jones, 14, found in ’71

Collette Wilson, 13, found in ’71

Rhonda Johnson, 14, found in ’72

Sharon Shaw, 14, found in ’72

Kimberly Pirchford, 16, found in ’73

Suzanne Bowers, 12, found in ’79

Brooks Bracewell, 12, found in ’81

Georgia Geer, 14, found in ’81

Laura Miller, 16, found in ’86

Donna Gonsoulin Prudhomme, 34, found in ’91

Lynette Bibbs, 14, found in ’96

Tamara Fisher, 15, found in ’96

Krystal Baker, 13, found in ’96

Laura Smither, 12, found in ’97

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ways of working with DNA technology, finally has a break in the case—and names for Jane and Janet Doe. After running the women’s DNA profiles through a national genealogy database, researchers discovered that Jane is Audrey Lee Cook, 30, a mechanic last seen by her family in 1985; and Janet is Donna Gonsoulin Prudhomme, 34, a married mom of two boys who had disappeared in 1991. “These women, they couldn’t defend themselves. They couldn’t speak for themselves,” says Dr. Connie Bormans, lab director at FamilyTree DNA, who

haunted League City for years. In December 2018 police, working with forensic experts, created DNA-based sketches based on skull reconstructions and sent the images out into the public, hoping someone might recognize the women—but no answers came. Then, a month later, detectives used the DNA to construct family trees of potential relatives of the victims and ran the information through national databases. A match for Donna came through in “minutes,” according to Rennison; Audrey’s followed days later. Once law enforcement confirmed the results, they contacted the women’s relatives. “Families got some closure,” says Rennison. And authorities got some potential crucial new clues to what they believe is at least one serial killer operating in the area.

“This opened two huge doors to the possibility of more leads to identify the killer, which is the ultimate goal,” says Rennison. “The fact that we know who these two people are will certainly give us additional leads. We need to talk to people who knew them, to tell us anything they remember.

Who did they date? Who were their friends? What did they do in school? Just everything.”

The victims’ relatives also hope for answers about what happened to their missing family members. Audrey, who was born in Memphis and eventually moved to the Houston area, where she found work as a rental-car and golf-cart mechanic, had grown estranged from her family but always called her mother on Christmas and her birthday. In 1986 Audrey’s mother never got a call, and a letter she had sent Audrey was returned.

“It worried her mother,” recalls Audrey’s sister-in-law Shirley Love, who says Audrey’s parents died without knowing what happened to their daughter. “In 33 years there was never a period more than six months that I wasn’t doing something to locate her,” she says.

“I never gave up.” Last year Love saw a Facebook post from police asking for help identifying Jane Doe that showed a sketch of a woman with a gap in her bottom teeth. “The hair on my body just rose,

Debbie Ackerman, 15, found in ’71

Michelle Garvey, 15, found in ’82

Gloria Gonzales, 19, found in ’71

Heide Fye, 25, found in ’84

A FATHER’S MISSION

Tim Miller still visits where the bones of his 16-year-old daughter Laura were found in 1986, a case that remains unsolved.

After her death he started Texas EquuSearch to help police departments search for missing people on horseback and on foot. “Every time we find someone, I say, ‘Laura, your death was not in vain,’ ” he told People.

Maria Johnson, 15, found in ’71

Audrey Cook, 30, found in ’86

‘I WON’T RULE OUT ANYTHING. A SERIAL KILLER IS OUT THERE’ —RICHARD RENNISON, FBI

Sarah Trusty, 23, found in ’06

Teressa Vanegas, 16, found in ’06

Jessica Cain, 17, found in ’16

and I went, ‘Oh my God,’ ” she recalls. “I just knew.”

Love put police in touch with a fourth cousin of Audrey’s, who provided the DNA sample that put the pieces together.

In the case of Donna, the answers came after investigators matched Janet Doe’s DNA to that of a deceased Louisiana man and contacted the man’s daughter-in-law Shera LaPoint.

LaPoint, who herself is a genealogist, spent the next weeks working with police to build family trees until she finally figured out who Janet might be. “It consumed me,” LaPoint says. “When I finally found out her name and saw a picture of her, I just broke down.” Donna had apparently fled Louisiana for Texas after an abusive relationship, leaving her two sons in the care of their grandmother. “She loved music and she loved people,” says her sister Dianne Hastings. “She was a happy, fun, loving mother, sister and friend.” Hastings is relieved to have answers about her sister but admits the closure also brings pain. “If I think about the way she was murdered,” she says, “it’s too much to bear.”

For now investigators continue searching for any clues about the lives the victims led before they died in hopes of bringing their killer or killers to justice. “We’re making progress,” the FBI’s Rennison says. “No amount of time that’s passed is too long. This can be solved.”

If you have any information about the case, please contact the FBI tip line at 800-CALL-FBI January 20, 2020

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Making Change

“I never knew I was going to walk away from this movie with so much,” says Jordan (with Stevenson, below).

Inset: Jordan with Jamie Foxx in Just Mercy.

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Telling a Hero’s Story I N J U ST M E R C Y, T H E AC TO R P L AY S A L AW Y E R W H O H A S S AV E D 1 3 5 M E N F R O M D E AT H R O W. H O W T H E Y ’ R E BOTH FIGHTING FOR CHANGE By N I G E L S M I T H

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Michael B. Jordan played a supervillain

in 2018’s Black Panther, but in his new film Just Mercy, the actor, 32, plays a real-life superhero: lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who, for the past 31 years, has worked tirelessly toward freeing wrongfully convicted inmates from death row and reforming the criminal justice system in America. “We’re in this era of over-incarceration, where one in three black male babies born in this country is expected to go to jail or prison,” says Stevenson, 60, whose bestselling 2014 memoir Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is the basis for the inspirational film. “Some of us have to have a hope that we can disrupt that.

That we can actually get us closer to the

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MAKING MOVIES WITH A MESSAGE

McMillian (left), his family and Stevenson (right) celebrated in 1993. Inset: the pair in court.

Fruitvale Station

In his breakout film, Jordan played Oscar Grant, whose killing by an Oakland officer in 2009 led to protests against police brutality.

The True Story Behind Just Mercy

freedom and justice that I think we so son went to a school that wasn’t dedesperately need.” segregated until he was in the second Stevenson hopes the movie is “an op- grade. His parents, Howard, a lab tech, portunity to reach new people” about and Alice, a bookkeeper, instilled in him his work—which has taken him to the a deep belief in education. “I’d never Supreme Court as well as maximum met a lawyer until I got to Harvard Law security prisons. He founded School,” he says. “But I never the nonprofit Equal Justice doubted that I could be one.”

Initiative, a human rights orJordan, who’s no stranger ganization that provides legal to making socially conscious services to people who have films (see sidebar), says he been wrongfully convicted felt a “tremendous sense of or unfairly sentenced. Just pride” in bringing StevenMercy traces one of his earson’s story to the screen. liest victories when, in 1993, “As a person of privilege in he got a black client’s murcertain areas, you struggle —MICHAEL B. der conviction overturned with how to make a change.

JORDAN in Alabama—the state where This man and his work have Stevenson lives now. “I go to work and given me an outlet to make a real imdrive past where Rosa Parks refused to pact.” To prepare to play Stevenson, the give up her seat, and I drive past Mar- Newark-raised Jordan met with young tin Luther King Jr.’s church,” he says. inmates to hear their stories and trailed “When you’re in an environment like the lawyer, whom he calls a “walking stat that, it makes it easier to keep fighting.” machine.” He was moved by Stevenson’s Raised in rural Milton, Del., Steven- work with his nonprofit, which has re-

‘This man . . . has given me an outlet to make a real impact’

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Creed

Jordan (with Sylvester Stallone) and director Ryan Coogler reinvented the Rocky franchise in 2015 with a tough, tender black hero.

Black Panther

He faced off with Chadwick Boseman in the 2018 Marvel megahit, showing the boxoffice power of diversity onscreen.

sulted in reversals for more than 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row. (A 2017 study found that 87 percent of black exonerees sentenced to death were victims of official misconduct.) “If you have some type of heart, some type of mercy, you would be able to see that is wrong,” says Jordan.

None of what Stevenson does is easy.

“Human rights work is standing next to people who are about to be executed, people who are hated and disfavored, and affirming their dignity,” he says.

“You can’t do that without setbacks.

But the beautiful thing is that if you keep fighting,you can get to justice.”

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The film recounts the harrowing true story of how Stevenson worked to free Walter McMillian (played by Jamie Foxx), a wrongfully convicted woodcutter from Alabama who was sentenced to death in 1988 for the murder of Ronda Morrison, an 18-year-old white woman who had been strangled and shot at the dry cleaners where she worked. After only a dayand-a half-long trial, McMillian was found guilty, despite six black witnesses who testified he was at a fish fry at the time of the murder. Stevenson showed that the prosecution’s star witness, a white convict, Ralph Bernard Myers, had lied about McMillian on the stand after being pressured by law enforcement.

After four appeals McMillian’s conviction was finally overturned in 1993, and he was cleared of all charges. McMillian died in 2013.

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Tr o u b l i n g Early Signs

Most reported cases have been influenza B, “which is unusual for this time of year,” says the CDC’s Scott Pauley.

Could This Be the Worst Flu Season in a Decade?

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A N A L A R M I N G N U M B E R O F E A R LY C A S E S P O I N T S T O A P O T E N T I A L LY E X T R E M E S E A S O N A H E A D

With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reporting more than 6.4 million cases since Sept. 29, this flu season is off to a roaring start—the worst since 2003. People spoke to Dr. Richard J. Webby, Ph.D., a researcher with the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and CDC spokesman Scott Pauley to find out what you need to know.

What do these scary numbers mean?

A | “This is definitely an earlier season,” says Pauley, “[and] it’s definitely a concern that we’ve been maintaining it for so long. We’re at eight weeks of sustained activity above the baseline.

Also, the main flu strain is type B, and we haven’t seen that since the early ’90s. . . . If [the number of cases] continues to increase, we could end up having one of the more severe seasons we’ve had in a while.”

What’s the difference between influenzas A and B?

A | “When we’re talking about the epidemic seasonal flu, A and B are the culprits,” says Webby.

B y J U L I E M A Z Z I OT TA

BY THE NUMBERS

6.4 MILLION

Estimated number of flu illnesses

55,000

Estimated number of hospitalizations for the flu

2,900

Estimated number of flurelated deaths CREDIT: U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL SINCE SEPT. 29, 2019

“Influenza A starts as an animal virus, then jumps over to humans. Influenza B circulates only in humans. But the symptoms all start the same— with rapid-onset muscle aches and fevers. [The vaccines contain antigens for both types.]

Tragically, this season has been particularly hard on children, with 27 flu-related deaths. Why so many?

A | “This is the most we’ve had at this point in the season in 16 seasons, probably because of the influence of influenza B,” says Pauley. “While children are likely to have had some exposure to influenza A from their parents, they’re not as likely to have been in contact with influenza B, so it’s going to have more of an impact on them.”

What can people do to avoid the flu?

A | “Anyone 6 months or older needs to get a flu vaccine,” says Pauley. “Beyond that, wash your hands and avoid contact with people who have the flu. And if you have it, stay home. But the No. 1 thing is to get the flu shot.” Webby seconds that, adding, “It’s certainly not too late.”

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Skin Care

Eye Patches

“I need my face to feel squeakyclean, so I wash with this, then use Paul Scerri moisturizer.

I swear [the moisturizer] was made for me. If they stop selling it, my face might turn to stone!”

Bioré Deep Pore Charcoal Cleanser, $8; at drugstores

“When my eyes get puffy underneath, I’ll put these on.

My fiancé [Kelvin Hayden] uses them too.”

Peter Thomas Roth 24K Gold Hydra-Gel Eye Patches, $75; sephora.com

“I was like a mad scientist,” says Henson of the more than 10 years it took to create her TPH by Taraji hair-care line.

False Lashes “Whenever I want a natural look, I use these strips with black glue, so I can go over it with black eyeliner.”

Ardell Wispies Black, $5; ulta.com

Taraji P. Henson

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Liquid Lipstick Henson uses this formula on her lips and eyelids. “My makeup artist [Ashunta SheriffKendricks] taught me that trick,” she says. “You’ve got to blend it fast because it dries quickly, but it’s easy and creates such a beautiful look.”

Milani Amore Soft Matte Lip Crème in Loved, $9; milanicosmetics.com

The 8 Products I Can’t Live Without Hair Care “I wear my hair mostly in protective styles. Sundays [are] like a spa day. I start with my scalp scrub (right), follow that up with one of my shampoos and masks, then we braid it down with my oil (far right) so that my hair won’t feel brittle and deprived when I take it out.”

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Concealer “If I’m running to the store, I’ll use it on my undereyes if they look tired. I like these because I can mix the colors.”

Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Pro Filt’r Instant Retouch Concealer, $26; fentybeauty.com

Fragrance “Whenever I wear this, people follow me,” the Empire actress says of the citrusy scent.

“But I spray it sparingly, because it’s expensive!”

Boadicea the Victorious in Valiant, $921; boadiceaperfume .com

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food

ERIC RIPERT

Smoked Salmon Dip with Chives

The award-winning chef—who is hosting his annual Cayman Cookout on Grand Cayman Jan. 15-20— shares a recipe for rillette, a light but rich-tasting French spread 2 1 1 3 1⁄

3

3

2

cups dry white wine Tbsp. finely chopped shallot (from 1 shallot) lb. skinless salmon fillet, cut into 1-in. pieces oz. smoked salmon, flaked cup mayonnaise Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (from 1 lemon) Tbsp. thinly sliced chives

o Yo u r G u i drents Pe p p e r c o There’s more to the world’s most popular spice than just their colors Photograph by JENNIFER CAUSEY

tsp. kosher salt tsp. ground white pepper Toasted baguette slices, for serving 3⁄ 4 1⁄ 4

1. Combine wine and shallot in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil over medium high. Reduce heat to medium low, and simmer until shallots are tender, about 2 minutes. Add salmon fillet pieces, and cook until just barely opaque, 2 to 3 minutes. Pour through a fine-mesh strainer, reserving salmon and shallot; discard poaching liquid.

BLACK

It’s the most common variety and has the strongest pepper flavor. Freshly ground, it’s the go-to for everyday cooking.

WHITE

They’re black peppercorns with the skins removed— making them less pungent and less visible in lightcolored foods, like Ripert’s salmon recipe.

2. Line a baking sheet with a kitchen towel or a paper towel; spread salmonand-shallot mixture over towel. Place baking sheet in refrigerator, and cool completely, about 20 minutes.

3. Gently stir together poachedsalmon mixture, smoked salmon, mayonnaise, lemon juice, chives, salt and pepper in a medium bowl.

(Be careful not to overmix.) Serve with toasted baguette slices.

Serves: 8 Active time: 15 minutes Total time: 40 minutes

PINK

The floral flavor and vibrant color make these dried berries best suited for light sauces or final garnishes.

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GREEN

Ideal for seasoning steak, these underripe black peppercorns are often sold pickled in brine to preserve their mild flavor.

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Last indulgence I used to hate baths because I felt like you were just sitting in gross water, but recently all my friends have been giving me essential oils.

I’ve taken baths with them the past three nights.

Last class I took I worked out with my friend at this place called Training Mate. I spent the whole class laughing because there were pregnant women who looked so strong, and I could barely do any of the exercises.

Last guilty pleasure A full bag of Bounty chocolate bars, which I never had before.

There were at least 30, and I ate all of them over two days in London. I was obsessed.

Last time I danced Yesterday while shooting the music video for my next single.

I’m not a good dancer, but I love movement. I can be kind of quirky and strong at the same time. I feel like I have a release.

Last thing I stole from work Anything cozy! I’ve stolen T-shirts and maybe even a blanket. I’ll be like, “Ooh, I really like that hoodie,” and then I have to run away.